When the sky changed
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After the sudden death of her father, Liora is forced to leave everything behind - her home in England, her memories, and the person she once was. But in America, beneath a sky that seems to be constantly shifting, she finds herself trapped under her mother's cold gaze - a gaze that only sees the ghost of the man she lost.
As Liora struggles to escape her mother's bitterness, a chance encounter changes everything. Love blooms. Healing begins. And for the first time, she sees a future not shaped by pain, but by her own light.
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